ARABIC, JUDEO-YEMENI: a language of Israel

The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.

SIL code: JYE

ISO 639-2: jrb

Population 50,000 in Israel (1995 Y. Kara). Population total both countries 51,000.
Region Also spoken in Yemen.
Alternate names   JUDEO-YEMENI, YEMENITE JUDEO-ARABIC
Dialects SAN<A, <ADEN, BE:DA, HABBAN.
Classification Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Comments Language varieties are all markedly different from their coterritorial Muslim ones. Hebrew script used. Jewish.

Also spoken in:

Yemen   
Language name   ARABIC, JUDEO-YEMENI
Population 1,000 in Yemen (1995 H. Mutzafi).
Alternate names   JUDEO-YEMENI, YEMENITE JUDEO-ARABIC
Dialects SAN<A, <ADEN, BE:DA, HABBAN.
Comments All dialects are markedly different from their co-territorial non-Judeo-Yemeni dialects. Jewish. See main entry under Israel.
 

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